Improvement in hog-ring blanks



E. N. WING.

Hoe-mm BLANK.

No. 172,360. Patented Jan.l8, 1876.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EPHRAIM N. WING, OF GREEN BAY, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOG-RING BLANKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,360, dated January18, 1876; application filed November 4, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EPHRATM N. WING, of Green Bay, county of PrinceEdward, State of Virginia, have invented an Improvement in Hog-RingBlanks, ofwhich the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is an improvement in devices for preventing ahog from rooting, by inserting into the snout a one-tenth inch wire, sixand one-half (6%) inches in length, having first been twice coiledaround an awl one-fifth of an inch in diameter, thus forming a coil ortwist, D, (Figure 2, in the accompanying drawing, in which thering-blank is somewhat enlarged,) near the center of the Wire, one endprojecting from said coil or twist being straight, D F, Fig. l theother, D E, Fig. l, curved.

A hole being punched in the end of the snout (not in the cartilagebetween the nostrils) with an aw], D F is inserted, thereby bringing thecoil or twist D close to the end of the snout. D E, being slightlycurved for that purpose, is brought over the end of the nose and back toF, which has been run through the snout, where the ends F and E, Fig. 1,are twisted together to fasten the ring.

The novelty consists in the combination of the central coil D withstraight arm F and curved arm E, thereby permitting the ringblank to beinserted into the end of the snout, and obtaining a permanent fastening.

I claim as my invention- The improved hog-ring blank having central 0011D, in combination with straight arm F and curved arm E, made and appliedsubstantially in the manner described.

E. N. WING. Witnesses:

G. S. WING,

(J. S. Woocrrorr.

